Thread: Iraqi/Dinar News before 3-12-2007 7:45PM CentralTimeZone

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

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HI' NOT SURE WHAT YOU ARE ALL SAYING/ DO YOU THINK THE DINAR. WELL GO UP/ AFTER THIS MARCH MEETING/ THANK YOU

New York, 2 March 2007 - Statement Attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on Special Advisor of the Secretary-General on the International Compact with Iraq and Other Political Issues

The Secretary-General has decided to appoint Ibrahim Gambari of Nigeria as his Special Advisor on the International Compact with Iraq and Other Political Issues. The appointment is at the Under-Secretary-General level.


Based at headquarters, the Special Adviser's role with regard to the International Compact with Iraq will be to ensure coordinated support from the United Nations System to the implementation of commitments made, through the Compact, toward a peaceful, secure and prosperous Iraq.


The Secretary-General values Mr. Gambari's recent service to the Organization as Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and he looks forward to working with him in this new capacity.

The Secretary-General's Statements

UN refugee chief praises Arab states for generosity, urges more aid for fleeing Iraqis

António Guterres addresses League of Arab States
5 March 2007 – Praising Arab states for their traditional generosity toward displaced people, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR) António Guterres has urged them to take a more active role in his agency’s work and called for international solidarity in easing the plight of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis fleeing conflict in their homeland.

“Looking back through history, the most direct line between tradition and contemporary refugee law is found in Islam,” Mr. Guterres told the League of Arab States' (LAS) Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Cairo yesterday, noting that the majority of today’s refugees around the world are Muslims.

“From its very beginnings, from the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet, Islamic law has considered the question of asylum at length and has given the asylum seeker (Al mustamin) prominence, dignity and respect. A community’s moral duty and behaviour always included how it responded to appeals for asylum,” he said.

The current refugee crisis in Iraq has placed an enormous burden on nearby host countries, particularly Jordan and Syria which together host some 1.75 million Iraqis, Mr. Guterres noted, calling it “the biggest displacement crisis in the Middle East since the dramatic events” of Israel’s independence in 1948, forcing one in eight Iraqis from their homes.

“Some 1.8 million Iraqis are currently displaced internally and up to 2 million others have fled the country,” he said. “Last year alone, we estimate that nearly 500,000 Iraqis moved to other areas inside the country.”

With up to 50,000 Iraqis still fleeing their homes inside the country each month, the impact of the crisis was felt first and foremost by the victims themselves. “But two neighbouring countries, Jordan and Syria, have shouldered the heaviest share of the humanitarian burden, with more than 1 million Iraqis now in Syria and up to 750,000 in Jordan,” he added.

“It is important to recognize the extreme generosity of Jordan and Syria, to a large extent left to face the crisis on their own through the lack of effective support from the international community. And here I have no problem recognizing that UNHCR itself has not done enough,” he declared.

He noted that UNHCR was already scaling up its activities in Iraq and the surrounding region, but its humanitarian efforts were still “a drop in the ocean” and could only deal with the symptoms “as a nurse deals with the visible signs of an illness.” Until the political side finds a cure, humanitarians “must go on treating the symptoms,” neighbouring countries must continue offering refuge, and the international community must do more to share the burden.

Calling for a clear, global commitment, he said UNHCR was convening an international conference on the humanitarian needs of Iraqi refugees and internally displaced persons in Geneva on 17-18 April.

Mr. Guterres, who was today wrapping up a three-day visit to Egypt, also expressed concern about rising intolerance, racism and xenophobia in many parts of the world, including misperceptions about Islam that can negatively affect Muslim refugees in need of international protection.

“Even in the most developed societies, we see the re-emergence of racism, xenophobia and that brand of populism which always tries to generate confusion in public opinion between refugees, migrants and even terrorists,” he said. “Let us be perfectly clear: refugees are not terrorists, they are the first victims of terror.

“The same attitudes have generated widespread misperceptions about Islam, of which Muslim refugees have so frequently been the victims. This is something that we at UNHCR cannot accept. It is our duty to respond, to fight those attitudes and to bring out the truth,” he added.

UN refugee chief praises Arab states for generosity, urges more aid for fleeing Iraqis

First : Planning : projects to improve the economic situation and creating jobs for the unemployed

.The Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation projects that the government will improve the economic situation and create job opportunities for the unemployed.

She said in a statement issued yesterday, the rate of unemployment, which has significant indicator, according to the latest economic surveys paid for the body strategy reconstruction of Iraq to focus on during the next stage of economic projects in support of the Iraqi economy and provide employment opportunities in the private and public sectors

The statement pointed out that the economic situation will improve in the coming months in the case of the arrival of loans earmarked for Iraq from the World Bank and the IMF and there will be urgent investment projects to provide employment opportunities
All Iraq - Azza م

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First : the Gulf Cooperation Council calls on Iraq's neighboring countries not to interfere in its affairs.

.The Gulf Cooperation Council, in a statement released Monday evening by Iraq's neighboring countries "not to interfere in their affairs," also called Iran to cooperate with the international community in respect of nuclear her file.

The Council stressed the impact of the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Member States on "the importance of non-interference in Iraq's internal affairs from any Party and rejecting any attempts to entrench sectarianism and division and undermine security and stability in the region

It also stressed "the importance of Iraq's neighboring countries play an active role to assist in strengthening security and stability and not to interfere in its affairs and address to stop terrorism and the acts of violence which threaten its unity. and to support efforts to achieve reconciliation and the Iraqi National Accord. " He said that "the solution of the Iraqi crisis lies in the first instance on the Iraqi government and political leaders and the support and cooperation of the Arab countries and neighboring countries."

On the other hand, the Council welcomed the "holding the 10th meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Iraq's neighboring countries in Baghdad. At the level of senior officials and the participation the five permanent members of the Security Council and international and regional organizations concerned. Iraq has called for an international conference on security in Baghdad, which held on the 10th of March.

He also welcomed the "serious steps taken by the Iraqi government to implement the security plan to impose law and the pursuit of hotbeds of violence and terrorism" expressing support "the actions of the government to withdraw the illegal weapons and to achieve national reconciliation program for all segments of the Iraqi people (...) and the rebuilding of its security.

On the Iranian issue of the Gulf Cooperation Council called for "the need to reach a peaceful solution to this crisis and urged Iran to continue dialogue with the international community and full cooperation in this regard with the International Atomic Energy Agency
All Iraq - Azza

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First : Zebari criticized Musa's statements about (the internationalization of the Iraqi issue)

Egyptian Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the Iraqi government was opposed to efforts to involve the Security Council in international plans aimed at stop the violence in Iraq. He said that the Iraqis are only concerned to resolve their crisis. The statements came Zebari response to statements made by the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Moussa

Which suggested that Arab governments put its recommendations on stopping the bloodshed in Iraq to the UN Security Council.

Zebari said that the proposals are internationalizing the Iraqi issue, which is totally unacceptable from the Iraqi side, pointing out that the Iraqi government an elected government is capable of dealing with the situation in Iraq

All Iraq - Azza

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First : to announce the start of the service, retaining Alzobai meet with the ministers of health, electricity, the Secretary and the Governor of Baghdad

Chaired by Dr. peace Alzobai yesterday convened a meeting of the ministers of health and electricity, Baghdad Secretary and the Governor of Baghdad in addition to the commander of the imposition of the law Staff General Abboud Kenber and a number of security officials and Khadmiin. During the meeting, and identify mechanisms to initiate service actions accompanying the plan to impose order and coordination with the security forces undertaken missions the application of the law to impose

The Deputy Prime Minister, we hope that the success of this plan and give full support to the plan to impose order and achieve ambitious sons Baghdad We appreciate all the efforts made by the security institutions and affirm that we stand by it in the provision of services, which can not be separated security in any form. The Minister of Health, Dr Ali al-Shamri during the meeting that the ministry teams ready to begin providing services, especially after the re-opening a number of hospitals in the areas that have been imposed by the regime.

For his part, Dr. Al-Issawi Secretary Saber Baghdad with the full support of the security and military forces in order to preserve the lives of working in teams of engineering and to provide protection for them to enter areas that have been the establishment of security there.

And across the Force Commander Lieutenant General impose law on the full forces are ready to provide support to the team, engineering and health of the Ministry of Electricity and secretariat Baghdad, the Ministry of Health, in addition to the teams by the Ministry of Commerce. This meeting was attended by Ambassador Joseph Salloum the manager of the reconstruction of Iraq in the American embassy in Baghdad

All Iraq - Ayad

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MPs call for strengthening the position of women in government-Maliki and others refer to the conditions for approval of a cabinet reshuffle expected.
Preparation and submission : Ahmad Zubaidi - Baghdad
And since the talk about a cabinet reshuffle, which includes a number of ministries without identification or areas of competence. The Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki revealed last Sunday that the amendment be announced within a week or two.
.In anticipation of such a step deputies asked strengthening women's position in the government Al-Maliki With Others pointed to laying down conditions for approval of the amendment. With (Ahmad Zubaidi) more details about the anticipated amendment and covered by the ministries.

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The Ministry of Finance will hold a conference attended by ministers, governors, heads of district councils on reconstruction projects and services this year.

Preparation and submission of the following :-Ahmed Baghdad

In Baghdad Through the large number of ministers, governors, heads of district councils and the Ministry of Finance held a conference where he warned Finance Minister Baqir Zubaidi all ministries and governorates of Altlkoe in the implementation of projects this year, threatening to withdraw the funds and transfer to the Ministry or governorate to another, while Barham Salih said Deputy Prime Minister for Economy, said that the Iraqi government is seeking to make 2007 the year of change the provision of services to citizens and improve their living conditions. (Leila Ahmed) has further details.

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More than one hundred thousand families were covered by the social protection network in Mosul.

Preparation and submission : Muhammad writer - Mosul

In Mosul citizens waiting in long queues and longer hours in front of the Social Security Department, Director of the Social Protection Network Mahmoud Ismail Hussein attributed this significant momentum to the process of the annual inventory undertaken by the Service to make sure information citizens covered by the network of social protection, pointing out that the law covers more than one hundred thousand poor families, citizens on their part, expressed their displeasure of the complexities they face during their consultations to obtain the grant.

heres a report of citizens awaiting the grant money promised them which obviously hasnt been distributed yet, merely registering to receive it currently.